Girls Flag Football is Here!
The SCEYFL-AAU is excited to launch its inaugural Girls Flag Football season in 2025!
Participating Organizations
Buena Park Chargers
Gardena Mohicans
Huntington Beach Chargers
Norwalk-SFS Saints
Whittier Crimson Knights
Woodcrest Generals
Season Schedule
League Games:
Sunday, September 14th
Sunday, September 21st
Sunday, September 28th
Sunday, October 5th
Sunday, October 12th
Playoffs:
Sunday, October 19th
Sunday, October 26th
Championship:
Sunday, November 2nd
Game Location
All games will be held at Edison High School in Huntington Beach.
Divisions
Minor Division: Ages 8 through 11
Major Division: Ages 12 through 14 (participants may turn 15 after July 31st)
If your organization is interested, there's still time to register for the season!
Subject to local discretion, drones may be used in compliance with any local, homeland security, or FAA regulations / laws for practice purposes only. Drones may not be used in association with any scrimmages, contests or games, other than as specifically allowed by the playing rules of the contest. Drones are not allowed over the field or the team area when squad members are present within the playing enclosure. Outside the limit lines, game management (or conference policy) govern drone activity. This governance will include all federal, state, and local laws including campus policy where appropriate. For SCEYFL-AAU purposes, drones are not allowed to fly over the footprint of the stadium/playing field when team members, officials, and other spirit groups are present.
Due to recent football rule changes at the High School level for 2023, effective immediately our Conference will adapt rule changes in efforts to increase rule correlation between youth and high school levels and promote accurate rule interpretation by officials.
Effective immediately, our Conference will be adding Mandated Reporting Training to the requirements of all volunteers with the Conference. California's Assembly Bill 506 (AB506) became law on September 16, 2021, and went into effect on January 1, 2022. This new law sets new requirements for youth serving organizations in three areas: screening, training, and policies.
California will not ban tackle football for children under 12 after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom publicly promised he would not sign the bill if it were to reach his desk, blocking a proposal that had become a proxy for parental rights in a presidential election year.
SCEYFL-AAU will focus on the element of FUN. We are a youth football conference and the theory of fun as been overshadowed in recent years by the desire to be the most competitive.
There is this overwhelming myth in sports that fun and competitiveness cannot coexist. To have one, you cannot have the other, and at some point, we have to choose between whether we are there to have fun in our sports experience or to compete.
Fun and competition do not exist at polar ends of a continuum in youth sports. In fact, fun and competition can actually be the same concept for kids.
Adults think fun for kids is goofing off, not listening, and not being serious. Children don’t define fun this way. Fun is working hard. It is being challenged and competing. It is learning a new skill, being with friends, having a coach that cares, getting compliments from coaches, and a coach who respects them. Fun in sports for kids means learning from mistakes, working together as a team, applying a skill you learned in practice in a game, improving athletic skills to play at the next level, playing against an evenly matched team, and winning. Fun is getting playing time! Yes, winning is part of the fun for kids. It is not the most important factor.
We will create an experience that fully engages children, keeps them playing for a long time, helps them develop vital skills in the game and beyond, and still achieves our adult-imposed goals on the whole thing. That is a win-win for everyone. They would play more, play longer, and play better if we only made it about fun.
Join us in bring the FUN back to youth football.